Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Goodbye to Walmart thieves forever – a new security system has been invented that will change everything https://www.eladelantado.com/us/walmart-new-security-system/
Lunar phase: 🌘 Waning crescent
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Goodbye to Walmart thieves forever – a new security system has been invented that will change everything https://www.eladelantado.com/us/walmart-new-security-system/
Lunar phase: 🌘 Waning crescent
Third postal contract expires with no deal reached as APWU bureaucracy prepares sellout https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/09/20/apwu-s20.html
Lunar phase: 🌗 Third quarter
History has been made; we now have our first “presidential mugshot”.
Former President Donald Trump was arrested yesterday on multiple charges relating to alleged attempts of tampering with election results. (I say alleged, as well, he’s innocent until proven guilty. My opinion–yeah, I’d hedge a bet on guilty. But, anyway.)
Needless to say, it’s fairly big news–the picture, anyway, not so much the arrest, as we saw this coming. And, of course, this silly media frenzy surrounding the picture is giving Trump tons of publicity. The question is, how will it be spun? I dunno, nor do I really care. I am slightly curious, however, in that same sort of curiosity one might have over seeing new property developments, or car accidents, or other little “I wonder” scenarios that really don’t seem to have that great of an effect on the curious, but easily could in some small way.
From the Newshole… The special six-year anniversary of 9/11 edition of Countdown…
Some of what we’re working on for tonight…
Tonight Keith broadcasts live from ground zero, in the footprints of where the World Trade Center stood until this date 6 years ago. We have some special guests lined up for the evening, including Tom Brokaw on the political decay that has taken place over the six years since the attacks.
Keith will also speak to a guy you’ve never heard of before. A guy named Frank Silecchia…one of the brave workers who spent months at ground zero, sifting through wreckage and debris…only to suffer dire consequences for his heroic effort. His story is written up in the Bergen Record…here’s an excerpt:
Frank Silecchia says he has good news on this sixth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack.
He’s not dead.
The bad news is that Silecchia, a construction worker who virtually traded his Little Ferry apartment to labor for months at Ground Zero, can barely walk a block without wheezing. Like hundreds of other Ground Zero workers, Silecchia breathed too much toxic dust and is now paying for it.
“I’m dying a slow death,” he said on Monday from his new home — a trailer parked on a patch of a friend’s yard not far from Coney Island in Brooklyn.
Also, from Stephen Hadley to Condi Rice to Osama Bin Laden and more, Keith will have a special “6 Years Later: Where Are They Now” update.
Plus, we’ll have all the news on the Petraeus/Crocker testimony before the senate, including more on the exchange between Crocker and Joe Biden recounted in the NY Times. An excerpt can be found after the jump.
Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, whose Democratic chairman and ranking Republican were openly skeptical of progress in Iraq, that although many challenges lie ahead, the situation is “slowly improving.”
“In non-diplomatic speak, what does that mean?” asked Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, the chairman of the panel, in a session that invoked memories of Vietnam and the 9/11 attacks.
“Neither of us believe we can see beyond next summer,” Mr. Crocker replied, alluding to Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top military commander in Iraq, who was sitting next to him.
Pressed by Mr. Biden, who is running for president and who said he is doubtful about success in Iraq after talking to rank-and-file troops in several visits there, the ambassador said he thought it would be “well beyond the end of next summer” before a stable, self-sufficient Iraq would be a reality.
From Stephen Hadley to Condi Rice to Osama Bin Laden, Keith will have a special “6 Years Later: Where Are They Now” report as he comes to you live from ground zero tonight. Also…Tom Brokaw joins KO to
oh, just some comical national news… interesting reads….
A Report Report Card: Not since April 28, 1967… when General William Westmoreland addressed Congress on America’s expanding military role in Vietnam… has so much attention been focused on a briefing by a military commander. But… in our fifth story on the Countdown… when General David Petraeus tried to begin his prepared remarks on Capitol Hill this afternoon… not even the microphones wanted to hear it.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Brit Hume, former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card, and a group containing former Bush Under-Secretary of Defense Jed Babbin, and John Gibson and Greg Gutfeld vie for tonight’s top honors
Less is More: Step aside Lindsay Lohan. Take a pass, Paris Hilton. And don’t even think about it, Nicole Ritchie. In our number one story on the Countdown… Britney Spears once again rules… as the train wreck du jour. Last night she turned in a super-hyped “comeback performance” that was met with the universal cry of… “Go back!”